With little fanfare, Valve has published the source to ToGL, a translation layer to support a subset of the Direct3D 9 API on OpenGL systems. ToGL is a component of the company’s Source 3D engine.

At GDC the Khronos Group announced not one but two new OpenGL specifications. The headline release, OpenGL 4, includes a raft of new features bringing OpenGL in line with Microsoft’s Direct3D ...

When it comes to games on PCs, there's one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics API used to tell the GPU what to do. Specifically, I'm talking about Microsoft's Direct3D and I'm ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API ...

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Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 Shader Model 6.9 along with a set of Direct3D 12 improvements that target both shader authoring and the runtime plumbing behind modern engines. The update is framed ...

In a somewhat unusual technical/promotional blog entry called "Raising the Bar with Direct3D", Microsoft has released some additional details on the version of Direct3D for Xbox One, along with ...

The team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer for other operating systems, has announced the launch of Wine 3.0 - the first version to support both Direct3D versions 10 and 11 and with Android ...

The Wine authors released the Wine 4.0 release, the latest major stable released of their open source and free compatibility layer designed to allow Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to install ...

Wine HQ has released version 3.0 of Wine after a year of development. The new release brings support for Android and Direct3D 10 and 11. Photoshop CC 2018 is just one of the programs that works now.

Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing apps using Direct3D 9 to experience problems after installing April 2022 cumulative updates, including crashes and errors on systems using certain GPUs.